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Book Synopsis Fathoming the Ocean by : Helen M. Rozwadowski
Download or read book Fathoming the Ocean written by Helen M. Rozwadowski and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the middle of the nineteenth century, as scientists explored the frontiers of polar regions and the atmosphere, the ocean remained silent and inaccessible. The history of how this changed—of how the depths became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession, an engineering challenge and a political attraction—is the story that unfolds in Fathoming the Ocean. In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities—in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The ocean emerged as important new territory, and scientific interests intersected with those of merchant-industrialists and politicians. Rozwadowski documents the popular crazes that coincided with these interests—from children's sailor suits to the home aquarium and the surge in ocean travel. She describes how, beginning in the 1860s, oceanography moved from yachts onto the decks of oceangoing vessels, and landlubber naturalists found themselves navigating the routines of a working ship's physical and social structures. Fathoming the Ocean offers a rare and engaging look into our fascination with the deep sea and into the origins of oceanography—origins still visible in a science that focuses the efforts of physicists, chemists, geologists, biologists, and engineers on the common enterprise of understanding a vast, three-dimensional, alien space.
Book Synopsis Sea of Glory by : Nathaniel Philbrick
Download or read book Sea of Glory written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has—until now—been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
Book Synopsis The Sea and Its Living Wonders. Translated from the Fourth German Edition and Partly Rewritten by the Author ... With Numerous Woodcuts and Twelve Chromoxylographic Plates by H. N. Humphreys by : Georg HARTWIG (M.D.)
Download or read book The Sea and Its Living Wonders. Translated from the Fourth German Edition and Partly Rewritten by the Author ... With Numerous Woodcuts and Twelve Chromoxylographic Plates by H. N. Humphreys written by Georg HARTWIG (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Voyages, the Age of Engines by : Joshua M. Smith
Download or read book Voyages, the Age of Engines written by Joshua M. Smith and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2009-02-22 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended as a text for college and advanced high school students, Voyages covers the entirety of the American maritime experience, from the discovery of the continent to the present. Published in cooperation with the National Maritime Historical Society, the selections chosen for this anthology of primary texts and images place equal emphasis on the ages of sail and steam, on the Atlantic and Pacific, on the Gulf Coasts and the Great Lakes, and on the high seas and inland rivers. The texts have been chosen to provide students with interesting, usable, and historically significant documents that will prompt class discussion and critical thinking. In each case, the material is linked to the larger context of American history, including issues of gender, race, power, labor, and the environment.
Book Synopsis The Sea and Its Living Wonders by : Georg Ludwig Hartwig
Download or read book The Sea and Its Living Wonders written by Georg Ludwig Hartwig and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lure of the Sea by : Alain Corbin
Download or read book The Lure of the Sea written by Alain Corbin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corbin argues that with few exceptions people living before the eighteenth century knew nothing of the attractions of the coast, the visual delight of the sea, the desire to brave the force of the waves or to feel the coolness of sand against the skin. The image of the ocean in the popular consciousness was coloured by Biblical and mythical recollections of sea monsters, voracious whales, and catastrophic floods. It was perceived as sinister and unchanging, a dark, unfathomable force inspiring horror rather than attraction. These associations of catastrophe and fear in the minds of Europeans intensified the repulsion they felt towards deserted and dismal shores.
Book Synopsis Ships Of Discovery And Exploration by : Lincoln P. Paine
Download or read book Ships Of Discovery And Exploration written by Lincoln P. Paine and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincoln P. Paine's SHIPS OF THE WORLD: AN HISTORICAL HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA was honored as one of the best reference books of the year by the New York Public Library, and Library Journal described it as "clearly the most fascinating book of the year." Now, in two equally fascinating new books, Paine focuses on two of the most interesting areas of maritime history: WARSHIPS OF THE WORLD TO 1900 and SHIPS OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION. SHIPS OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION tells the stories of 125 vessels that have played important roles in voyages of geographical exploration and scientific discovery, from early Polynesian double canoes to the most technically sophisticated submersibles. Each ship is described in a vivid short essay that captures its personality as well as its physical characteristics, construction, and history. Drawings, paintings, and photographs show the grandeur and grace of these oceangoing vessels, maps help the reader follow the routes of great seafarers and naval campaigns, and chronologies offer a perspective on underwater archaeology sites, maritime technology, exploration, and disasters at sea.
Book Synopsis The Sea and Its Living Wonders. Fourth Edition, Enlarged, Etc by : Georg HARTWIG (M.D.)
Download or read book The Sea and Its Living Wonders. Fourth Edition, Enlarged, Etc written by Georg HARTWIG (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Maritime Geography and Statistics ... by : James Hingston Tuckey
Download or read book Maritime Geography and Statistics ... written by James Hingston Tuckey and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sea and Its Living Wonders by : Georg Hartwig
Download or read book The Sea and Its Living Wonders written by Georg Hartwig and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reports and Documents by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report by : United States. Congress Senate
Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on with total page 2200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Sea by : Frank Boott Goodrich
Download or read book The History of the Sea written by Frank Boott Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce by W.S. Lindsay by :
Download or read book History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce by W.S. Lindsay written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Maritime Geography and Statistics, Or a Description of the Ocean and Its Coasts, Maritime Commerce, Navigation Etc by : James Hingston Tuckey
Download or read book Maritime Geography and Statistics, Or a Description of the Ocean and Its Coasts, Maritime Commerce, Navigation Etc written by James Hingston Tuckey and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Our Ocean Railways by : A. Fraser-Macdonald
Download or read book Our Ocean Railways written by A. Fraser-Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1380 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (36 download)
Book Synopsis Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
